Nurses

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Belle Lam

Trinity

Ivy Lim (f)

Practice Management

Rekha Vadgama

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Reception

We have a secretary, five administrators and ten receptionists who are here to help you and are pleased to do so but their jobs are quite demanding so please be patient. We aim to treat our patients promptly and in complete confidence and to provide personal and continuing medical care. You may on occasions be asked for medical information in order for them to assist you e.g. when you are asking for a home visit. All information given to a member of staff will be treated in confidence as all staff is bound by the same code of conduct as the doctors and nurses.

Community Nurses

The district nurse team attached to the practice for Wandsworth patients is based at Balham Park Surgery and their telephone number is (020 8772 8686) and for Lambeth patients are based at Streatham Hill and their number is (0203 049 4002).

They are all trained nurses qualified to practice at an advanced level in the community. They meet regularly with the doctors and provide high quality nursing and health care.

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.

Their direct telephone number is 020 8767 0193. A health visitor who is based at the Streatham Hill Primary Care Centre (020 8243 2233) sees the Lambeth children and parents.

Attached Staff

Clinical Psychologists

We have part time clinical psychologists who are based at the main surgery but sees patients who have been referred by the doctors at both sites.

Physiotherapist

A physiotherapist from St George’s Hospital sees patients from both sites at the main surgery on Monday, Tuesday and Friday afternoons.